Barbara,

*IF* you created the cursor in question through an SQL statement, then the NOFILTER sub-clause of the INTO clause should put it to disk for sure.

regards,
Jim N

>>I have a cursor (VFP50a, Win95) which has a filename assigned, which can be read with dbf(). However, the file does NOT exist in the temp file.
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>How do you know the file is not there? I mean: how did you verify that?
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>> I've checked that the temp directory DOES exist, and that the cursor exists - I can browse it. However, I can't access it with the filename.
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>Does that means that USE (DBF()) will give an error?
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>Vlad